But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

So they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

but they urged him, “Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.” So he went in to stay with them.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called ‘Great.’”

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”